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Thanks Guys. It's a big relief to hear it. I go from limbo to liminality now, just to throw some anthropological vocab about. Indeed. Another 4 really. Although I'll be doing my fieldwork in the workplace and certainly get roped in to helping out the sucky 1st year undergrads too. I never run, nevermind fast. Too much effort. Dr Haggis has been assaulted by some neds! we've got a battered Haggis here people!

Got a telephone call informing me I'd been accepted into the PhD.

Listening to the CD, but I'd quite like a vinyl copy.

Airplane headphones. I've lost all of my earbuds and they had

Mr Fantastic vs. Captain America vs Mr Incredible vs lBuzz Lightyear FTW!

Wasn't it Jeremy Clarkson who said that if you have a car accident on Iceland it's worse because you're bound to know the person in the other car? Incidently plan C sounds delicious. What happened to it?

Did they have protocall droids on Cybertron? Did C3PO transform into a dictaphone?

Who are they then?

Hippitty Burpdai Dear Boy!

Bad luck there or what! Could have been worse though. Jack Lemmon could have landed in the second one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0BOOgW7rHE

Thanks for the advice wualta. Yeah its a simple plastic ticker counter. I've played all of the tapes once just to find out what's on them but the machine needs a little more work than I'd first thought. I think that the play head may need renewed or replaced, it's looking slightly flattened. And I've no idea how well aligned the heads are or what particular tape formula they might be optimised for. Not that that matters because theres like 6 different types of tape in the box I've got. Given how little listening I do with my turntable compared to digital I can't see how this will integrate properly into my listening. Even if I was to send it away for a full tune-up there's just no way I can afford to spring for the Tape Project tapes, which in any event aren't the kind of music I'd want to spend mega money on. I'll take some pictures tomo.

NAD C352. Sometimes a Quad 405-2. I'm reserving ultimate judgement on them for the day when I hear them out of something much meatier but atm, they're just plain not as good as the O2 or the H2.

They needs Moar Bias. Which version do you have?

Indeed.

DENONS ARE TEH BEST HEADPHONES EVAR I CAN TELL FROM SOME OF THE REVIEWS AND FROM HEARING QUITE A FEW BESTS IN MY TIME.

Hah Pherri Nerreh Hippitty Burpdai To Hugh Squire!

I think I'm getting the hang of time estimation based on how much reel has passed. Although it'll never be spot on of course. Been through 11 of the tapes so far. One reel is Beethovens 4th Symphony One is the 3rd and 8th Beethoven symphonies but they both don't quite fit on and the second symphony ends abruptly. One reel contains assorted pieces featuring predominantly harpsichord and flute and from the sound of which I'd guess as being Bach. 2 Reels contain 7&1/2 ips recordings of "The Organist Entertains" from BBC Radio 2 which will be the first things to get taped over as it's absolutely awful. One reel is a 15ips recording of Jean-Michel Jarres Rendezvous and from how quiet it is I'm guessing its a recording of a CD but I could be wrong. One reel is a Peter Cincotti esque selection of very groovy and really rather good funky jazzy songs. One reel contains classical music played in a sort of jazzy style and is very good indeed, Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor on piano with drum accompaniment was fun. Three other reels are are 15ips classical music, some of which I can't specifically or sometimes even broadly identify but also most of which is nice enough to listen to. The 12th reel which I have playing just now is an FM radio recording of Ludovico Einaudi live in concert but suffers a little too much for greatly enjoyable listening because of persistent crackling. It may be the tape though. Some of the tapes need the DBX Type II equalisation on playback (Jarre) and some don't (Funky Jazz tape). Fortuitously such a device was included with the tape machine. Five more reels after this one. One of which has a different spindle hole and can't be played (I think). All listening so far done with the O2.

I'm actually amazed at how easy it was. Left one just came out no probs. Right one had to get cut in half and then they had to dig around a bit and take a wee bit of my jawbone out. Stitched me up and sent me home. Theres been no pain at all and only minimal discomfort on the right side. Listening impressions are of a slightly lighter, less clogged sound but there might be a gap in the frequency response somewhere.

Reel to Reel of harpsichord and flute pieces which I cannot identify. Nice though.

Had my bottom two wisdom teeth extracted.

Beethovens 4th Symphony on 15ips reel to reel. Sounds pretty fucking nice.

Is there any album in the universe which has such a giant gulf between how good it is to listen to and how shit its cover art is?

Painstaking, but appealing in a really anal retentive way sir! That is of course on the premise that each digit on the RTR counter represents one second (which I had assumed to be the case). That classi-jazz tape is gonna go down a storm at the UK meet, if it happens.

Seriously. I must never have heard Celt on the O2 before. Bwaaaaaaaaaht?